Liu2-3 at 2013 Cactus Pheasant Classic

SKIP
Rui
Liu

Third
Jia Liang
Zang

Second
Xiao Ming
Xu

Lead
De Xin
Ba

Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) finished 2-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Liu defeated Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) 4-3, then won 7-2 against Kevin Martin (Edmonton, AB). Liu went on to lose 8-2 against Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB). Liu lost 5-3 to Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Liu lost 6-5 to Robert Schlender (Airdrie, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

. For week 11 of the event schedule, Liu did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 20th to 21st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 91.030 total points. Liu ranks 22nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 24.100 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	65	32	0	0.670	28-16	11-12	10-14	2-3	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	784	613	470	7.82	5.99	1.82	4.89	3.85	1.60	1.56	1.26

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	383	430	89	55	5-0	26-7	95-13	1.12	0.23	0.38	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	401	183	381	44	3-7	15-21	27-77	0.46	0.95	0.56	0.29

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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